Thursday, February 02, 2017

"40 Years" For Serial Lakeview Burglar (He'll Be Free in 2021)

He’s been convicted of burglary seven times before, but that doesn’t mean Daunta Head will be spending a lot of time in prison for his latest convictions.

Head | Ill Dept of Corrections

In most states it would, but not here. Not in criminal-loving Illinois.

Head just pleaded guilty to four burglaries in Lakeview and Uptown.

The judge sentenced him to four ten-year terms

Now, you may be saying, “Gosh, forty years is a lot of time, CWB.”

It is. Until you do the Illinois sentencing math.

Here’s how it works:

10 years X four sentences = 40 years

All of the sentences have been ordered to run concurrently, so that makes it 10 years.

Illinois automatically cuts nearly all sentences in half at the moment the inmate sets foot in prison. 10 years divided by 2 = 5 years.

Now, subtract the number of days that Head sat in jail waiting for his case to wrap up.

When it’s all said and done, Head is going to be paroled in October 2021, according to state records.

Four Break-Ins

Head’s “forty year” deal came in exchange for guilty pleas in connection with burglaries of three Lakeview residences in the 3400 block of North Marshfield as well as an Uptown home, according to court records.

Head forced his way into the homes and stole valuables during the spree in late 2014, encountering at least one homeowner along the way, police said.

The victim managed to take a cellphone pic of Head as he walked out of the victim’s home. Moments later, Head was captured on “clear surveillance footage” carrying a suitcase stuffed with valuables onto a CTA bus at Ashland and School, police said.